Vacation, day five

Day five was really the last day of New Hampshire vacation, since the week included two travel days, there and back. Also, it was rainy. Both these things might have been a little disheartening, except that we were ready to relax and take it easy. No mountains or gorges or caves or ziplines or off-road vehicles. Instead, we watched the mist on the rain-soaked mountains.

And we went out for lunch. This was the second time we had a meal I hadn't cooked. Luckily, I like cooking. And making your own meals is, after all, one of the selling points of a time share - since you have a place with a full kitchen, you can save money by not eating out so often. It's true.

We had lunch at the Woodstock Inn, where some of the decor consists of old typewriters.

I ordered poutine, a dish I had read about but had never yet tried. It's a Canadian dish - French fries, gravy, and cheese.

Tastes great - ideal vacation fare, because it's something you never, ever eat in the course of normal everyday life.

Then I had chowder and Pig's Ear brown ale, the signature beer at the Woodstock Inn, which has a microbrewery on site.

Very satisfying.

Then we went to the movies - we saw Super 8, the new J. J. Abrams / Stephen Spielberg film. And enjoyed it thoroughly. The ending is quite silly, but you can't ask for too much sense from science fiction. What all three of us loved was the evocation of life in the seventies, from a child's point of view. We ourselves were in our twenties during those years, but it was still very nostalgia-inducing. I would love to see stills of the boys' bedrooms, and spend time examining all the stuff the set designers put into those rooms.